China Keywords: Tianxia

Eric Hendriks talks with Ban Wang and Ian Buruma

In the first webinar in the “China Keywords” series of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, Eric Hendriks discusses the concept of “tianxia” with Ban Wang and Ian Buruma.

Prof. Ban Wang, Stanford University, is a key scholarly interpreter of tianxia thought and Chinese socialist internationalism. His most recent book is China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision (Duke University Press, 2022).

Ian Buruma is a leading public intellectual, editor, and cultural historian who has published extensively on imperial legacies in China and Japan.

Eric Hendriks is a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute in Budapest, Hungary. His research concerns the ideological tensions involved in China's integration in the global order. His essay “The Polemics of China's Counter Cosmopolitanism” appeared in Telos 201 (Winter 2022).

Topics: China Initiative • Webinars